Ramsbeckite

Origin: Gelbe Birke Mine, Schwarzenberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
Picture size: 1 mm
Owner: Thomas Witzke
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Thomas Witzke

Institut für Mineralogie und Lagerstättenlehre
Aachen, Germany

 

  
Excellent specimen with textbook examples of two uncommon copper minerals. The serpierite occurs as long acicular crystals to 2mm, while the ramsbeckite occur as glassy blue, blocky crystals covering matrix.
Origin: War Eagle mine, Inyo Co., California, United States
Sample size: 5 x 5 x 4 cm
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Tom Loomis

Dakota Matrix Minerals

 

Origin: Waterbank mine, Ecton, Staffordshire, England, UK
Sample size: single 0.6 mm emerald green ramsbeckite crystal with serpierite on smithsonite
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Brynarian Mine, Tre-Taliesin, Llangynfelyn, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.7 mm crystal
Owner: Steve Rust
 
Origin: Ystrad Einion Mine (Dolgoch), Furnace, Ysgubor-y-coed, Ceredigion (Dyfed; Cardiganshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: 0.5 mm crystal
Owner: Steve Rust
 
  
Origin: Dylife Mine (Pen Dylife. Esgairgaled. Llechwedd Ddu), Dylife, Machynlleth, Powys (Montgomeryshire), Wales, UK
Sample size: crystals to 0.6 mm on schulenbergite (top left), 0.5mm crystal, with schulenbergite, linarite, and langite (top right), Crystals to 0.5mm, with schulenbergite (bottom)
Owner: Steve Rust
 

Photo courtesy of: 

Steve Rust

 

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